Italy is the first nation in the world to be safe from the social and economic risks of synthetic food

more like the only nation to consider all cultivated meat a problem and prohibit it instead of regulating it.

So they’re banning what’s likely the “end all, be all” meat replacement in the (hopefully not so distant) future just so that being a “livestock farmer” remains viable?

‘In defence of health, of the Italian production system, of thousands of jobs, of our culture and tradition, with the law approved today, Italy is the first nation in the world to be safe from the social and economic risks of synthetic food,’

Health? Yeah, get back to me the next time there’s an outbreak of mad cow disease, swine flu, or bird flu and say that to my face.

Jobs? The synthetic meat isn’t going to make itself, and there will always be a market for “organic” meat in any case.

Tradition? The human race’s oldest and most persistent fallacy. The democracy of the dead.

This is shortsighted. This guys sounds exactly like the idiot lawmakers here in America who said solar panels and electric cars will never catch on, so what’s the point in investing in them now?

We have a really stupid minister in charge of this stuff. And i mean it in the truest sense of the word, this guy has a room temperature iq.

Anyways, the sale ban will probably fail in court, the production ban will only harm the italian industry because sure as hell they can’t stop european synthetic meat from entering the country.

Well that’s understandable. I too want my meat to have been grown in its own shit and be pumped full of antibiotics and let’s not forget the secret incredient: cruelty.

We’re a sad country

Italy be taking a lotta L’s these days. I wonder who they will side with in WW3?

Is that what the people want, or some big key to power that stands to inevitably lose out? If other countries transition out of meat livestock isn’t it pointless to handicap yourself?

Reactionaries opposing technological innovations that would prevent suffering because they’re not ‘natural’. Color me surprised.

They’ve cited health, yet I can’t seem to find the health risk argument. Other than that, standard Italian politics where representatives are changed quite often.

Italy you say? The one EU member that has repeatedly used its power to lock down ag requirements and protections for it own foods for the other member states?

The only upside is that gabbagol is delicious, and who would want to fuck that up?

I upvoted the post so others see it, but I do not like that they’re banning it. That’s poopy garbage ass.

Slightly off-topic, but, is there a Lemmy community for cellular agriculture, akin to r/wheresthebeef? That’s one of the few remaining subreddits I haven’t found a Lemmy replacement for yet.

Italy has been on a roll of incredibly stupid and incompetent bills lately. Working on literally everything except insuring their people can fucking afford food.

Excellent! I hope the rest of the EU follows suit